Adult Classes

The Calistoga Art Center offers classes to nurture your creativity. Beginners and professionals learn together in a relaxed, fun-filled atmosphere. Classes and workshops are small enough to receive a lot of individual attention.

4 Week Session: Cost $75

Acrylic Painting & mixed media

Fridays 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Do you want to get back to painting or learn how to paint for the first time? Or do you want to explore how to paint from a different perspective and acquire new skills? Karen teaches people how to tap into their creativity, tame the inner critic and make better paintings. Instructor: Karen Lynn IngallsMaterials List

Ceramics class

Mondays & Wednesdays 5:30pm - 8:30pm

February 1-27 M & W

March 1- 29th M & W

April 3-26 M & W

May 1-24 M & W (no class memorial week)

Have you been waiting to try your hand at creating clay? Would you like to push your current clay skills to a new level? Then this is the class for you. Demonstrations will include pinch, coil, slab and wheel throwing techniques. Trimming, texturing and handle/spout attachments will also be covered. Discussions will include design, decoration and glaze techniques. The focus of this class will be on students refining their personal style and constructing high quality, structurally sound functional pots and/or sculptural forms.

The classical approach to portrait & figure painting

Thursdays 9:30am-1pm

session:march 2nd, 2017- April 13th, 2017

In this class, we will be working from a live, clothed model. We will be using a lifting technique, and a limited palette... This 7 week course will include a focus on anatomy, compositions, measuring for accuracy and the use of thumb-nail sketches. I will work with artists individually and in your chosen medium. Artists are welcome to use mediums other than oils, however the demonstrations and examples will be pertaining directly to the use of oil paints. A portion of the beginning of the class will be dedicated to a lecture and demonstration and handouts will be available.